Ms Eil?sh Hardiman:

I thank Deputy Dillon. Of course, all our planning falls out from the substantial completion date. We have an operational commissioning programme. Once the development board has finished with the technical commissioning, we will have to get this hospital open. We have, as the Deputy can see, almost 5,000 staff who need to be made familiar with all the buildings. We also have the electronic healthcare record and many other ICT projects that need to be implemented. Certainty around the date is therefore important to us. While we have a plan, it is important to ground it in time. It is critical, yes.